Kidzban/Personal Kanban 2nd grade elementary school class experience report

By Yuval Yeret|2014-01-19T22:16:34-05:00January 19, 2014|Personal Kanban|

The purpose As a parent to a 2nd grade school girl I want to deliver a personal kanban / KidzBan class in a school show & tell parents activity so that kids are exposed to this interesting approach to plan & navigate their activities that can help them take ownership. Desired side effect – for her princess to be proud of her father. Preparation Well, I’m not a Kidzban or Personal Kanban expert. Far from it. We’ve played occasionally with [...]

Who would have thought Personal Kanban would end up being the counter-measure to stalled Kaizen / Continuous Improvement?

By Yuval Yeret|2012-07-31T00:37:02-04:00July 31, 2012|Blog, Change Management, Management, Personal Kanban|

Paying attention to Management attention I've been talking recently about the challenges of keeping sustainable sticky Continuous Improvement programs. An aspect I've mentioned but not emphasized enough is the lack of management attention. In this blog post I will focus on why management attention is so important in improvement programs, why is it lacking and what might we do about it. Why we need management attention Basically to change the system of work you need the attention of people that [...]

If productivity experts tell me to keep email closed most of the day – why shouldn’t I avoid looking at defects for most of the release?

By Yuval Yeret|2010-10-04T13:13:44-04:00October 4, 2010|kanban, Personal Kanban|

An interesting question was raised to one of our coaches at Agilesparks. Question: Isn't it more efficient to wait till the end of the release and then all together handle all the bugs? One of us answered that same like you probably prefer to answer emails throughout the day rather than at the end, you want to deal with bugs during the sprints. I of course fully agree that you need to deal with bugs during the sprint/release, or in [...]

Who would have thought Personal Kanban would end up being the counter-measure to stalled Kaizen / Continuous Improvement?

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